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Lutherie-Related Links
If you know of a builder or supplier that is not listed here, please contact me with the information.
Luthier's Organizations
Schools and Instruction
- Newark & Sherwood College in Newark, England offers classes in classical guitar and violin construction.
- Fretted Instrument Construction Course at the Manchester College of Arts and Technology (UK)
- Galloup School of Lutherie In his Big Rapids, Michigan shop, Bryan Galloup offers a Journeyman Course at 8 weeks and a Master Course at 24 weeks long.
- Fretwork Guitar Repair School - This interesting and engaging program is all about making sure you understand the nature of acoustic and electric guitars.
- Americal School of Lutherie - Learn state-of-the-art guitar making and repair from today's leading professional luthiers. Choose from weekend workshops, 1-week seminars, 2-week hands-on professional training courses.
- Sergei de Jonge
- Roberto-Venn School of Lutherie - A very comprehensive four-month course taught in Phoenix Arizona.
- Timeless Instruments - Luthier David Freeman offers a 7 week hands on instruction in design, building ,finish & setup of steel & classical guitars.
- Recording Connection is an established music industry school where students train for careers as professional recording engineers.
- Minnesota State College - Southeast Technical - Southeast Tech has a program in Stringed Instrument Repair including guitar repair and construction.
Builders
Suppliers
- Acoustic Woods. Ltd. - Hand pick your own Tonewoods - variety of back and sides to soundboards.
- Allen Guitars - Great tonewood selection, fretboard slotting service and more.
- Allied Lutherie - Lutherie Supplies, tools and some very nice tonewoods. They have Legal Brazillian from stumps.
- Ameritage Cases - Climate controlled cases for virtually any portable musical instrument.
- Colonial Tonewoods - Colonial Tonewoods is a company dedicated to providing luthiers with the finest quality hand selected, air dried tonewoods in the industry.
- Colorado Case - Soft cases and case covers for any musical instrument.
- Diamond Bottlenecks - Diamond Bottlenecks from the U.K.makes glass and lead crystal guitar slides
- EuroSpruce - Our speciality is strictly air dried German Moonspruce (picea abiens) that is usually used for the finest violins or cellos here in Europe.
- Exotic Lumber, Inc. - Exotic Lumber stocks over 140 varieties of hardwoods, softwoods and tonewoods including ebony, Indian rosewood, curly koa, quartersawn wenge, figured bubinga, African blackwood, sitka spruce, fiddleback mahogany and Brazilian rosewood sets... just to name a few! Featuring an extensive selection of turning blanks, planks, logs, and bookmatched sets. We also stock a wide variety of marine grade timbers, sheet goods and veneers.
- FineCases.com - A case for every instrument - you'll find it here.
- Grafted Coatings, Inc. - Makers of the KTM-4A and KTM 9 waterborne finishes
- Guitarwood - Canadian supplier of tonewoods, parts etc.
- International Luthiers Supply, Inc. - Tonewoods, parts and materials for stringed instruments. Tools and finishes, strings and general luthier supplies at good prices.
- John Mickelson - Fossil Ivory King - Fossilized Walrus Ivory bridge pins and instrument fittings from Alaska
- Leonard Musical Instruments - Leonard Musical Instruments sells and manufactures a variety of products for musical instrument construction and decoration. We carry Ivory Nut Blanks, Ivory Saddle Blanks and Ivory Bridge Blanks for many different Guitars, Mandolins, Ukuleles and more.
- Luthier Supply - Andy provides great looking shell inlays for all instruments. Excellent prices on shell blanks too.
- Luthier Tool Company - Nice looking tools for luthiers made by Chris Klumper
- Luthier's Friend - The Luthier's Friend is a one stop sanding station designed to meet the demands of stringed instrument makers.
- Luthier's Mercantile - Luthier Supplies - wide variety of exotic woods.
- MOP Supplies - Australian suppliers of various shell inlay materials.
- Musicians Mart - Cases and other accessories, but mainly cases.
- Northridge Hardwoods - Specializing in figured maple.
- Northwest Timber - Tonewoods.
- Notable Woods - Notable Woods
- Rescue Pearl - Rescue Pearl Company is a well-known distributor of assorted shell material for inlay.
- Stewart-MacDonald - Luthier supplies, tools, finishes, training materials and more.
- Sully's Straps - Fine Leather Guitar Straps by Pat Sullivan
- Timeless Instruments - Since 1975, a supplier of tonewoods for acoustic instruments.
Other Links of Interest
- Craig Lavin, an inlay artist, displays his fabulous work here. This is some of the finest inlay work I have seen anywhere.
- Guitar Notes Just about everything related to guitars including tons of links
- Frank Ford's Site Everything you ever wanted to know about guitars is here. Frank is the famous luthier/repair guru at Gryphon Stringed Instruments up in the Bay Area. This is one of the coolest websites there is which deals with stringed instruments.
- Yuh-Ya's 000 DeluxeThis Japanese amateur builder shows us his immense talent by building a 000 Deluxe style instrument. This is a very impressive build. Click the 000 link.
Check out Dave Skowron's Flatpickin' site:
